Picard is a simple to use music tagger, with many advanced functions, including automatic tagging, moving and renaming files and many others.
To install Picard open the Ubuntu Software Center. Search for Picard and click install.
Enter your password.
Wait for the install to finish.
To install Picard from the command line run "sudo apt-get install picard". After it has finished installing, launch it from Applications > Sound & Video > MusicBrainz Picard or by running picard.
When Picard opens you will see the following:
Click on the add folder or add files button in the tool bar to add files or folders, respectively.
After opening the music select the song you wish to edit. The original data is displayed on the left, while the new data is displayed on the right.
Though you could manually enter all the meta data, Picard includes two ways to automatically add meta data called scan and look up. When clicking on the look up button in the toolbar, it will automatically add additional meta data based on the current meta data from the MusicBrainz website. With this option you can select multiple files to look up. If you click on the Look up button in the bottom pane after selecting a file, it will be taken to the MusicBrainz website where it will search for the album and artist. After the page loads find for the song and album. Click on the "Tagger" button. After clicking that, Picard will load that album into the right panel where you can drag songs from that album to it.
After dragging the file to the relevant song in the album, it will update all meta data to that of the song, including title, artist, album, track, length and date. When you have made all of the changes to the file click save.
Picard also includes a more accurate way of finding meta data called scanning or fingerprinting.
In summary Picard can make your life much easier if you often download music or buy CDs without meta data.
To install Picard open the Ubuntu Software Center. Search for Picard and click install.
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When Picard opens you will see the following:
Though you could manually enter all the meta data, Picard includes two ways to automatically add meta data called scan and look up. When clicking on the look up button in the toolbar, it will automatically add additional meta data based on the current meta data from the MusicBrainz website. With this option you can select multiple files to look up. If you click on the Look up button in the bottom pane after selecting a file, it will be taken to the MusicBrainz website where it will search for the album and artist. After the page loads find for the song and album. Click on the "Tagger" button. After clicking that, Picard will load that album into the right panel where you can drag songs from that album to it.
Picard also includes a more accurate way of finding meta data called scanning or fingerprinting.Instead of using release-oriented and metadata-dependent lookups, Picard can try and tag your files 1-by-1 based on their audio fingerprint. If you select a set of files in the left-hand pane and click "Scan", Picard will find PUIDs for your files and query MusicBrainz to find a track that matches them. Picard Documentation.This method is far more accurate than the look up option as it uses the tracks unique PUID instead of non-unique meta data.
In summary Picard can make your life much easier if you often download music or buy CDs without meta data.
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